Life in academia can be difficult. Studies of faculty show high levels of stress leading to impaired productivity, exhaustion, pessimism, and disillusionment. Methods for addressing workplace stress including mentoring, professional/social interaction, and work-family enrichment have been well documented. This co/autoethnographic study examined a…

Professional burnout is one of the most important problems of working life today. In this research it is aimed to follow the relation between job satisfaction and professional burnout of education workers by using meta-analysis method. In this context, examining the relation between occupational burnout and job satisfaction in educational…

This study aimed to explore principal and assistant principal experiences on factors contributing to burnout among school administrators. The study utilized a qualitative research design, implementing a phenomenological approach to obtain the perspectives and subjective interpretations of burnout based on the experiences of the participants. The…

Background: This study aimed to explore perceived work stress and its association with burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction and the mediating effect of psychological flexibility on these relationships. Method: Two hundred and fifty-one disability support workers across Australia reported on work stress, psychological…

Little is known about student affairs professionals' well-being. A hierarchical regression analysis of responses from 2,414 participants revealed a robust relationship between work quality variables and these professionals' well-being score. Work-life balance was not a significant predictor of well-being for these respondents. Recommendations for…

The purpose of this qualitative research project is to determine the type of labor secondary school writing center directors experience and the relationships between those types of labor. While there is research being conducted on labor, especially emotional labor in connection to self-care, in post-secondary writing centers, more research is…

This doctoral project explores the relationship between Catholic school culture and teacher burnout within the context of Catholic secondary schools in the state of Texas. While the subject of teacher burnout has gotten considerable attention in educational research, there is very little research on the specific relationship between school culture…

This study explores the professional quality of life for faculty who serve as an academic mentor at liberal arts colleges. As both a recruitment and retention strategy, personalized learning experiences, such as academic mentoring, remain popular across the United States (Morganstern, 2019). Fourteen full-time faculty members across ten schools…

Perceptions of pre-service teachers on burnout, occupational anxiety and faculty life quality were investigated in this research. The research group consisted of 461 pre-service teachers in total studying at Afyon Kocatepe University faculty of education. "Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Form," "Faculty Life Quality Scale"…

This article describes how charismatic leaders inspire followers with a vision of a better future, but attaining that better future is not easy and requires hard work, extra effort, and sacrifice. In challenging organizational environments where crisis is present, one leadership style that emerges has been described as charismatic. Charismatic…

This article examines the perceptions of early-career, fixed-term researchers in Finnish universities towards changing careers. It maps out the reasons this group has considered the change and where they see themselves in five years. As a theoretical framework, a synthesisation of variables related to career change, created by Ryan, Healy, and…

The present study aimed at testing and exploring the psychometric properties of the Counselor Burnout Inventory (CBI) in Greek school counsellors. Two hundred school counsellors from all over Greece participated in the study. The confirmatory study revealed four dimensions of the Greek version of CBI; namely, exhaustion, deterioration in personal…

Quality of working life has been defined as the part of overall quality of life that is influenced by work. We developed a mediation model where home-work interface, job and career satisfaction, control at work, and working conditions are considered to be positively related to employee commitment and to the absence of stress at work. These two…

Modern education systems evolve in a context of growing teacher shortages, frequent turnover and a low attractiveness of the profession. In such a context where these challenges interrelate, there is an urgent need to better understand the well-being of teachers and its implications on the teaching and learning nexus. This working paper proposes a…

Teacher turnover continues to perpetuate shortages in U.S. schools, particularly within settings that serve students with disabilities, economic disadvantages, or other obstacles to their education. Recent studies suggest high teacher turnover in high-need settings is not reflective of problems associated with the needs of their students, but…